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Two modes of capture are available:
- NIC Capture mode
- Direct Capture mode.
In NIC Capture mode (live capture), the capture is performed
like on any other network card. The frames are routed to the
NDIS driver.
In Direct Capture mode, the frame stream is dumped to the
disk. The capture file format is computed in the ProfiShark
hardware.
Protocol Analyzer
(e.g. Wireshark)
ProfiShark Hardware, 8ns Timestamp
Direct Capture Format Computation
ProfiShark NIC
Capture Driver
ProfiShark Direct
Capture Driver
Network Driver
(NDIS)
Capture Driver
(e.g. Winpcap)
HDD/SSD
